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| RATIOS & INDEXES |
| Gold / Silver | 61.42 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.35 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.19 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Silver Recoups Sharp Loss And Rises 2% On Record Volume |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,378.75, EUR 1,070.21 and GBP 908.39 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Gold climbed $19.40 or 1.43% yesterday to $1,384.30/oz and silver finished 2% higher.
Silver’s recovery yesterday from being 10% lower at one stage to recouping these losses and then rising over 2% was very positive technically. The key reversal is leading some to postulate that we may have seen the bottom or are close to a bottom.
Spot Silver Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
 Silver Surges 6.8% From Lows After Slammed 10% Lower In 4 Minutes |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,353.75, EUR 1,051.95 and GBP 890.86 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,376.75, EUR 1,069.15 and GBP 903.62 per ounce.
Gold fell $22.20 on Friday to $1,364.90/oz and silver closed at $23.632.
Silver fell victim to heavy, concentrated selling overnight in thin, illiquid Asian trading. Silver was slammed by 10% and fell from $22.36/oz to $20.30/oz in just four minutes - from 23:05 GMT to 23:09 GMT.
XAG/USD Spot Exchange Rate – 1 Day (Tick)
Silver has recovered 7% of Monday, May 20, 2013 |
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 | Jesse - Le Café Américain |
 Marking the Field: US Stated Gold Reserves and Gold Held at the Fed - World Gold and Gold Swaps |
| The US Treasury says that it holds 261,499,000 fine troy ounces in its international reserves.
The gold is valued on the books at $42.2222 per fine troy ounce. This represents a total value of $11,041,063,078.
Since there are 32,150.7466 troy ounces in a tonne, the US Treasury has 8,133.53 tonnes of fine gold on its books. Note that the number as presented on a copy of the official US Treasury statement shown below includes 'gold swaps.'
A discussion of the procedures and nature of goldMonday, May 20, 2013 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| South Africa Imports $1 Billion of Unwrought Gold to Meet Global Demand |
| Today’s AM fix was USD 1,412.25, EUR 1,094.51 and GBP 926.67 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,436.50, EUR 1,103.47 and GBP 938.15 per ounce.
Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)
Gold dropped $6.00 or -0.42% yesterday to $1,425.40/oz and silver finished - 1.02%.
On Tuesday 14th May, workers at Lonmin PLC, the world’s No. 3 platinum producer in South Africa began a wildcat strike. This caused immediate disruption of all mine production and led to concerns that South Africa was yet again Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |
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| Jesse - Le Café Américain |
| Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts - South Africa Imports $1 Billion In Gold Bullion From NYC? |
| The stories on the sidebar are interesting today. The last piece by Golem XIV about What Bankers Don't Know is a 'must read' in my opinion.
I was greatly amused to read that South Africa imported about a billion dollars in gold bullion from New York earlier this year, an amount large enough to turn their trade surplus into a deficit.
The reason given was that South Africa had problems in its mining sector because of union actions etc.
What is not stated is that it was cheaper for South AfricTuesday, May 14, 2013 |
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| Aubie Baltin |
History’s Best Gold Buying Opportunity – Dr Baltin  |
| There is only one difference between a bad
economist and a good one: The bad economist confines himself to the
visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect
that can be seen and more importantly, those effects that must be
foreseen. The bad economist pursues a small, present good that will be
followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a
great good to come, at theMonday, May 13, 2013 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold "Still Bearish" as Western Buying "Cools", But Indian Festival Demand Seen Matching |
| London Gold Market ReportSPOT GOLD PRICESslipped back below $1470 per ounce Thursday morning in London, drifting as world stock markets failed to follow Wall Street higher, where equities yesterday hit new all-time highs.Silver held above $24.00 per ounce, just shy of last week's finish, as commodities slipped overall.A rise in Sterling after the Bank of England held its monetary policy unchanged drovegold pricesdown to £942 per ounce for UK investors. Government bond prices meantime rose everywThursday, May 09, 2013 |
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| Ben Traynor - Bullion Vault |
Gold Speculation and the Comex  |
| What exactly does 'speculative net long' mean...?EVERY FRIDAY, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes data that enable analysts to 'take the pulse' of various commodity markets.The Commitments of Traders (CoT) report gives the aggregate positions held by traders from the previous Tuesday, including the number of long contracts (that stand to benefit if prices rise) and short contracts (that benefit if they fall).Included in the CoT is positioning in gold and silver futures and optionFriday, May 03, 2013 |
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 | Chris Powell - Gata |
| 'Not one piece of evidence' that gold market is rigged? Really? |
| For years your secretary/treasurer has been alerting the London Telegraph to documentation of the gold price suppression scheme and begging the newspaper to report it.
While the newspaper's brilliant international business editor, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, has declined to get into the issue, he has acknowledged it from time to time.Monday, April 29, 2013 |
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